Eloise Mckinna-Illustrator

Eloise is my beautiful neighbor in the studio and my house! She's also in second year and is a very talented illustrator. Her quirky drawing style and comedic pictures always make me laugh, and shes one of the hardest working in the class. I also like to bullied her into modeling my final pieces last term, as well as bullying her to get my phone/camera/food from around the house. Els is amazing!




1. How many cameras do you use and what are they?
Two, my multicoloured holga from Japan and my Olmypus Digital SLR





2. Do you use your camera in your work?
Yeah I do I use it for referencing things.
3. Do you prefer drawing from pictures or real life?
Pictures, unfortunately google images.
4. Can you remember your favorite photo you've taken?
I took a disposable camera to a few festivals this year and they came out really well. They are mostly of my boyfriend Seb.








5. Why did you choose Illustration over other areas of Art and Design?
I didn't come from an art background, it was either that or fashion but I couldn't sow.



6. How would you describe your work? What interests you?
Simple line drawings of everyday life.
7. What do you think about the crossovers between the subjects?
I work from photographs alot, but i think its quite necessary to know the boundaries between the two.
8.Where can I find your work?
http://eloiseillustration.blogspot.com/

Sam Hawkins-Illustrator.

Sam Hawkins lives right next to me in the studio. His work is effortlessly good and his sarcastic comments always cutting. His personality is that of an old man and the only things that make him happy are boobs, his bike and moleskin sketchbooks.



1. How many cameras do you use and what are they?
A box brownie, canon DSLR, Olympus ON10, Pentax ME Super, Olypus trip, A polaroid and few others from charity shops. And a lomo.




2. Do you use your camera in your work?
No. No real reason but I'm an illustrator not a photographer.

3. Do you prefer drawing from pictures or real life?
Real life-Real life changes, why reproduce from a photograph ?(but I still do occasionally)

4. Can you remember your favorite photo you've taken?
No. I don't think so.






5. Why did you choose illustration over fine art/photography/other areas of art?
Photography isn't a real subject, everyone can do it. I think I'm extra talented and something special.

6. How would you describe your work? What interests you?
A mess. When I'm not drawing cocks, vagina's and breasts I like drawing pedophiles and Sebs' dad naked kissing my dad naked on the mouth. Are you getting all this down? This is gold.




7. What do you think about the crossovers between the subjects?
Because they are all changing it doesn't really matter. I still dont think of photography as art, although I like Daf Bruening. He's good, but its still not art its just funny.

8. Where can I find more of your work?
I have a blog but I'm not giving it to you.

Ryan Munns-Fine Artist

Ryan Munns is my very talented friend in second year Fine Art at Westminster Uni. It was really nice to interview him and see his work as I never normally venture over to the Fine Art studios. He came up with some interesting answers and opinions, and I was really impressed by his photography. His cameras were rather lovely too!




1. How many cameras do you use and what are they?
Polaroid Camera-Supercolour 635, Kodak Prontour 500LK










2. Do you use your camera in your work?
I do indeed, I use it for printmaking, silkscreens and I also use polaroids I've taken in the past as my work. And just general photography.
3. Do you prefer drawing from pictures or real life?
I don't know, I don't think you can cut it down. Sometimes its not feasible to sit in front of what you want to capture on a piece of paper or piece of canvas.
4. Can you remember your favorite photo you've taken?
A polaroid of it snowing last year in halls, not just because its a pretty picture, its the memories and connotations I have of that picture.
(following photos from a selection of 'Summer Photography'by Ryan Munns...)








5. Why did you choose Fine Art over illustration/photography/other areas of art?
I think Fine Art is such a broad subject you are bound to encounter other areas. My project at the moment involves graphic design, clean cut. It all blends into one another.
6. How would you describe your work? What interests you?
I'm making a sort of collage installation hybrid at the moment.I end up making all my art about my home town. Paintings, pictures, obsession through artwork. I love the colour blue. I make alot of blue art.





7. What do you think about the crossovers between the subjects?
Its good to branch out, its weird I think of things as really specialist, if I got to a show I always expect to see that.(Illustration show-illustrations, Photography show-Photographs etc) I've got mixed feelings of crossovers in specialised subjects.
8. Where can I find more your work?
that-creative-thing.blogspot.com

My Illustrations...